We did lots of riddles then broke up into groups. Each group had to come up with a rhyming word pair. Then a riddle question to go with the pair. You should encourage figuring out the rhyming word pairs first. It's much easier that way.

After playing with hink pinks for a while, we moved onto a music lesson. I did a lesson on forte-piano. We made forte-piano signs on an index card. As we listened to William Tell's overture by Rossini, we turned our cards to match if the music was forte or piano.

I taught (or refreshed their memory for some) John Jacob Jingle Heimerschimdt to illustrate this. Then, we made our own body percussion rainstorm. (variation of the lesson) Finally, we played a hot/cold musical game called Button, You Must Wander. (someone hides the button, the kids sing forte/piano to help the seeker find the button)

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I totally learned that these are ink pinks but the premise is exactly the same. I use them a lot for studying vocab words and reviewing their meanings. It gets really dynamic when students can make their own! http://eslcarissa.blogspot.mx/2012/07/rhyming-word-game.html Glad to see other people love them too! Such a great way to keep students involved in critical thinking, vocabulary practice and inferring.